Round Hill Road 84.pdf
Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING
220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Bonnie Parsons Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year):
March, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 31B-315 Easthampton NTH.592 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 84 Round Hill Road Historic Name:
William P. Strickland House Uses: Present: Four-family residence Original: Single-family residence Date of Construction: 1908 Source: Springfield Daily Republican Style/Form: Colonial
Revival Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: brick Wall/Trim: vinyl Roof: asphalt shingles Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Vinyl siding
added, windows replaced, ca. 2000. Condition: good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 1.43 acres Setting: This house is on the crest of Round Hill and is set back from the street
on a large lot.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [84 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 1 NTH.592 __x_ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much
space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate
the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This two-and-a-half story, Colonial Revival style house has been altered during its conversion
to four-family use. Vinyl siding and replacement windows diminish the effect of its original details and materials. The large house has a front-gable roof with cross-gables on the north
and south elevations where there are also asymmetrical wings, creating a complex plan and elevation. elevation. The eaves of the front-gable roof make full returns to create a pediment.
Two sets of paired windows fill the gable field below a jetty in the gable peak. A full-width, hipped-roof porch on Colonial Revival style Doric columns crosses the east façade. It has
a balustrade on the second floor level that becomes a second story porch entered by a single, centered door. The house is only three bays wide but windows are paired under capped lintels
to create larger openings. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s)
the owners/occupants played within the community. From Form B of 1980: “This house was built in 1908 for William Strickland, a lawyer and judge of the District Court, at a cost of $8000.
This property, at the crest of Round Hill had been part of the estate of Round Hill Hotel, Northampton’s most celebrated tourist spot of the mid 19th century. After the demise of the
hotel in in the early 1870’s, several development schemes had been proposed, but it was not until the turn of the century that residential building took place. After Judge Strickland’s
death, the house became part of the Clark School for the Deaf’s property and was lived in by Caroline Yale, the second principal of the school.” BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers,
F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Hales, John G. Plan of the Town or Northampton in the County of Hampshire, 1831. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton
and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F.
Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860.
INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON] [84 ROUND HILL ROAD] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation
sheet 2 NTH.592 National Register of Historic Places Criteria Statement Form Check all that apply: Individually eligible Eligible only in an historic district Contributing to a potential
historic district Potential historic district Criteria: A B C D Criteria Considerations: A B C D E F G Statement of Significance by _____Bonnie Parsons The criteria that are checked
in the above sections must be justified here. This property would contribute to a potential Round Hill Historic District. This potential historic district is significant according to
criteria A and C and would have local significance. The residential streets that cross Round Hill are significant according to criterion A for their reflection of development in Northampton
from the early 19th century (1807) through the 1950s. Residential development began on Round Hill with the establishment of gentleman’s estates but grew with schools and a resort hotel
until the 1890s when residential development increased significantly. From the 1890s through the 1950s (1959 McAlister Infirmary) Round Hill became home to Northampton’s wealthy and
to the Clarke School for the Deaf. Architecturally this area of Northampton is significant for the range of residential architectural styles including the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival,
and for its institutional buildings in the French Second Empire, through High Victorian Gothic and Colonial Revival styles ending with the American International style. The potential
district has integrity of workmanship, design, feeling, association, and materials.